Rescuers recover body of missing 8-yr-old Kalin Hunter (boating accident)

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The Volunteers from Texas Equusearch were involved in the successful recovery of this young boys body after a drowning accident.
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NewsFriday, March 23, 2007 5:40 PM CDT

Rescuers recover body of missing 8-year-old
By Edith Brady-Lunny

CLINTON -- Rescue workers followed the image of a little boy for three days on sonar equipment until his body was retrieved from Clinton Lake about 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

“We had images from early on, on Tuesday, but he didn’t start moving until this morning,” said Dennis Waters, a sonar operator who assisted crews working for eight days to locate the body of Kalin Hunter, an 8-year-old boy from Normal.

The child was lost the night of March 14 when the 17-foot aluminum fishing boat carrying him, his grandfather and his uncle went over the 25-foot spillway of Clinton Lake during a storm. The bodies of the two men were recovered March 15 at the base of the spillway, where water flows into Salt Creek.

Conservation police Cmdr. Duane Pitchford said Kalin was found about 130 yards south of the spillway in an area apart from his grandfather and uncle.

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[MsVada]

Thank you TES for bringing closure to another grieveing family.